As we move into a world where organizations make more and more usage of heterogeneous infrastructure resources, providers that offer those same organizations tools to ensure the performance of those resources will become more and more important. Into that role steps uptime software, an existing player in the IT systems performance space that is releasing a new product to give automated real-time monitoring of VMware.

I got a run through the product prior to launch and specific areas that uptime is trying to target in this release include;

The uptime offering is comprehensive but I had a few comments around the heterogeneity pain point that they’re attempting to solve. It seems to me that the reality for an enterprise is that VMware based assets are but one of the multitude of cloud services they’re potentially utilizing. Add to this the higher level cloud offerings – PaaS and SaaS – and we quickly run into a situation where uptime is doing a fantastic job of monitoring one particular silo of our IT asset base.

What excites me more in this space are vendors that are trying to deliver insights across all levels of the stack and across different vendor type – in the same way that data integration services become more powerful the more individual services they integrate, so to will monitoring be ever more valuable as it both broadens and deepens its fundamental proposition.

I like what uptime is doing and think the latest release is an incredibly comprehensive offering for VMware shops, I’d just like it to be extended to provide an awesome offering for ALL shops.

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do you have any idea what you are talking about? this post clearly shows you have no idea on infrastructure management and monitoring. articles like this brings down the value of cloud avenue blog. i am sorry.

I think this is a fair review, and up.time covers server and application monitoring across many platforms (AIX, Solaris, HPUX, Windows, Linux, VMware, Novell, etc). I think your point is that up.time should grow to cover more in the ‘cloud’ and I agree.

For Cloud, up.time can already fully monitor Amazon EC2 and end-user transactions for SaaS applications. up.time plans to support performance and capacity monitoring of more cloud platforms and applications soon.

Additionally, up.time just announced a new product that focus on monitoring real-time cloud cost and capacity management in Amazon EC2. Currently uptimeCloud is accepting beta users. http://www.uptimecloud.com